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WORKERS OF WELLINGTON, You aro the Backbone of tho City. VOTE FOR GEORGE FISHER, Your Champion during storm-tossed years, your Beet Friend to-day. He helped you in the past — it is your time to help him. now. VOTE FOR GEORGE FISHER, THE BRAINY POLITICIAN. . Ho has sacrificed the beet and brightest part of his life for the benefit ot the working-class ; surely that class will not desert him now. Wellington owes much to GEORGE FISHER. Tho young electors probably do not know GEORGE FISHER, but the "oldtimers"^'o, and they are respectfully asked to rally round "OUR GEORGE'S" banner to-morrow. VOTE FOR GEORGE FISHER, who has given 32 years' honest, conscientious work to Wellington — who has advocated tho people's rights with voice and pen. VOTE FOR GEORGE FISHER. Ho will not pass you by after the election, as others do. VOTE FOR GEORGE FISHER, Poor of Pocket but Rich of Brain. VOTE FOR GEORGE FISHER, The Poor Man's Friend. VOTE FOR GEORGE FISHER, New Zealand's Political Encyclopaedia, and the Finest Debater in our Parliament. Workers, pause and think, and VOTE FOR GEORGE FISHER. Workers, attest by your votes to-morrow that GEORGE FISHER i B not "an outsider," as you were told this morning, but a brilliant finiEher. Workers, don't forget, v "A MAN'S A MAN FOR A' THAT." DO YOU BELIEVE* THAT RATING ON UNIMPROVED VALU.ES should bo made mandatory? If so, VOTE FOR O'REGAN. VOTE FOH O'REGAN. Do you bolicvo that tho Sale of Crown Lands should cease? If so, VOTE FOR, O'REGAN. VOTE FOR O'REGAN. Do you believe that wo should use our pnsold lands as an endowment for old-age pensions? If so, VOTE FOR O'REGAN. VOTE FOR O'REGAN. Do you believe in tho periodical ro- i valuation or taxation of all Crown leases? If so, VOTE FOR O'REGAN. VOTE FOR- O'REGAN. Do you favour tho REDUCTION OF DUTDSS ON THE NECESSARD3S OF LIFE? If so, VOTE FOR O'REGAN. VOTE FOR O'REGAN. Are you in favour of increasing the-Land-tax so that large squatters and not working men should bo taxed? If so, VOTE FOR O'REGAN. VOTE FOR O'REGAN. Do you believe in equality of sacrifice in taxation? If so, remember these figures — Income-tax £179,000 per year, sugar-tax £173,000 per year— and VOTE FOR O'REGAN. VOTE FOR O'REGAN. Who declares that these figures showabundanco of sacrifice, but no equality. Do you favour preference to trades unionists? If so, VOTE FOR O'REGAN. VOTE FOxy O'REGAN. Who voted for that before and is game to do so again. Do you belive in widening the local franchise? If so, VOTE FOR O'REGAN. VOTE FOR O'REGAN. Who has always voted for this reform. Do you believe in the Initiative and Referendum? If so, REMEMBER O'REGAN, REMEMBER ' O'REGAN, who was tho first to persaude the House to agree to the second reading of the Referendum Bill. j Of course you aro in favour of keeping defence expenditure within proper bounds. Then VOTE FOR O'REGAN, VOTE FOR O'REGAN, because he says we- can shoot straight without the fantastic frippery of militarism. / Do you believe that Parliament should elect its Ministers? Well, then, VOTE FOR O'REGAN, VOTE FOR O'REGAN, who has voted consistently for Steward's Bill. Don't you think that a young fellow" who oarrios his way in life deserves a chance? VOTE FOR O'REGAN, VOTE FOR O KEGAN, who has mado a 'study of political subjects, who is a student and a thinker (to quote tho Lyttelton Times), who is a selfeducated, ciean-handed young New Zealander. O'REGAN SAYS O'REGAN SAYS that the earth is for all, not alone for the few who can buy it. Who will deny that he tells the truth? Ho says, further, that old-age pensions should be charged to land values, and , that our unsold Crown lands should \/ made an endowment for pensions. REMEMBER, REMEMBER, there are eleven men who "own" £200,000 worth and upwards each in New Zealand, while forty "own" from £100,000 to £200,000 each. Are not these t'.\o men who should pay taxes? Yet wo no\v raise £2,250,000 by Customs and only £\ 00,000 by Land-lax. We aro told that there should bo equality in taxation. Thon VOTE FOR O'REGAN, VOTE FOR O'REGAN, the young colonial, tho gifted speaker, tho friend of the masses— tho IRREPRESSIBLE O'REGAN. RINTING of EVERY DESCRD?TION executed with Neatness and DesDatch at the Eveninc- Post office.

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Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 126, 24 November 1902, Page 6

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Page 6 Advertisements Column 7 Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 126, 24 November 1902, Page 6

Page 6 Advertisements Column 7 Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 126, 24 November 1902, Page 6

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